I got my nf7-s and it came with basically a IDE to SATA powered adapter. Think it's work a shot? I remember talking to AT about this thing a long time ago, and he mentioned something about data corruption. Anyone used it successfully?
The technology may have improved, but I doubt it. The bottom line is that if you use an IDE device with a SATA connection, what's the point? You're not going to get better performance, since the IDE will still be your bottleneck. It makes more sense to go IDE --> IDE or SATA --> SATA, not mix & match. Even if you only wanted to use the SATA connectors because you're, for instance, low on IDE ports, it'd still be better to just either add another IDE controller card or just use SATA devices instead. My $0.02...
I'm not sure if its been fixed but I do remember Linux not detecting the HD if you used a converter from IDE > SATA. thats only important if you plan to use linux.
I've never seen the Linux problem, it may be a vendor or kernel-specific problem. But I have seen data corruption, in both Windows and Linux.
I was trying to remember from when you were helping me try out linux, some time back if you can remember? It might have been data corruption and not what I said before.
Well then. Screw it. I was just thinking of testing out and seeing what it's all about. Since I was gonna install linux on that drive, I'm not gonna even waste my time.
